£12m awarded to three home telecare sites
Teams in Kent, Newham and Cornwall have been awarded £12m to look at how best home telecare can be implemented. The areas will form the Whole System Demonstrator pilots promised by the white paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, and will be the biggest ever pilot of telecare and telehealth in the UK , […]
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BT ‘de-couples’ London Cerner development from South
BT the local service provider for London is to develop its own version of Cerner Millennium for London, separate to the version of the system being installed and developed for use in NHS trusts across the South of England. BT’s decision to de-couple London from the South appears to have been prompted by well documented […]
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PACS roll-out milestone hit in London and the South
All NHS hospital trusts across London and the South of England have now received systems to enable them to capture and store digital diagnostic images as part of the health service IT modernisation programme. NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for NHS IT, yesterday confirmed to E-Health insider that 56 digital picture archiving and […]
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Accreditation win for Barts and London service desk
Barts and The London NHS Trust has become the first hospital trust in England to win Connecting for Health accreditation to provide expert IT support to NHS organisations nationally. The accreditation allows the trust to offer 24-hour Front Line Support Services for National Programme for IT (NPfIT) Applications such as the NHS Care Records Service, […]
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Millennium delays creating financial risks, trust warns
A report by Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust on delayed plans to deploy Cerner Millennium warns that current reporting difficulties with the system "could have an impact on all remaining Cluster R0 go-live dates". The trust board paper seen by EHI warns that should delays to the availability of a system that meets requirements […]
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Cerner problems ‘reported before NOC go-live’
A problem with appointment bookings that hit Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital when it went live with its new Cerner system had been reported previously by a London hospital, according to a television report. The problem resulted in some patients not receiving appointments and others presenting when the hospital was not expecting them. It also resulted in […]
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Fujitsu’s Cerner delays mount in the South
Three more trusts have had to postpone Fujitsu implementations of Cerner Millennium in the South at short notice, as go-live dates for hospital systems slip further across the region. The delays mean that a key Connecting for Health delivery pledge will be missed. The three latest sites to announce delays include Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, […]
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Intellect to launch telemedicine group
UK IT trade body Intellect has told E-Health Insider that it plans to start a dedicated telehealth group, following its participation in a US telemedicine conference. Representatives from the UK gave a presentation at the Boston Partners Telemedicine Annual Symposium, held at the Harvard Medical Centre on 18-19 September, promoting the British telehealth industry. The […]
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London Cerner switch announcement imminent
NHS acute trusts in the capital will next week receive letters from BT notifying them that it has terminated its contract with GE Healthcare and instead awarded a contract to Cerner to supply its Millennium clinical software to hospitals. The imminent switch to Cerner, first reported by E-Health insider on 13 June, is expected to […]
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Cerner predicted to replace GE in London
An analyst report from the US has said that there is a high probability that clinical software firm Cerner will replace GE Healthcare as main the supplier of clinical systems to the NHS in London. If a change does occur it is likely to initially result in further delivery delays to modernising NHS IT systems […]
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